I wouldn't buy Zend either... I use CFEclipse for development, GIMP for graphics...so yeah...I use a lot of free open source stuff because that is pretty much what I can afford.
-----Original Message----- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:seancorfi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 16:57 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: why is cf_builder so expensive? On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Dave Long <d...@northgoods.com> wrote: > Time to learn PHP, I guess. Don't forget to buy Zend Studio! It's only $299! > Perhaps the folks at Adobe even want to kill it off, judging by the > price charged for their Enterprise version. As others have noted, Enterprise increased in cost from $5,000 to $7,500 to make it easier to sell into the enterprise market which expects server software to cost in the region of $10,000 per CPU (and up) - otherwise "it can't be any good at such a low price". Standard is still $1,300 (and I can't remember the last time that changed price) which is cheaper than several of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings. I don't understand why so many people beat on Adobe over price. If they don't make money, they don't create software and you won't have those great tools. And if price really was your yardstick for software, you'd all be using free open source software - and then you'd be complaining that some companies dare to charge for support or professional services (e.g., Red Hat). All software, even free open source software, costs money to develop and maintain. If you, as consumers of software, aren't prepared to pay for it thru some channel, it'll stop being produced. And finally, you as software developers expect to get a fair wage for your efforts - don't begrudge other software developers the same reward. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341497 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
